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" What about Hong Chau? In typical supporting-part fashion, she shows up halfway through ‘Downsizing,’ already shrunk, an imperious Vietnamese house cleaner with a limp and sharp angles. The movie’s satirical cleverness upstages its rage; then Ms. Chau proves she’s capable of managing both. " - Wesley Morris

" The Revolutionary Guard Corps is the official protector of Iran’s revolution, with 100,000 troops divided into air, naval and ground divisions. It plays a large role in Iran’s economy. Its international paramilitary arm, the Quds Force, is Tehran’s main vehicle for supporting Shiite proxy forces. " - Antony Blinken

" People who lie, particularly those who lie really big, can’t do it effectively unless they feel that there’s a righteous power behind what they’re doing. You’re entitled to lie because the end justifies the means. " - Alex Gibney

" It was the king’s army, the king’s people, the king’s taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty. " - John Buchanan Robinson

" Corporations are like countries now, there’s a king, there are serfs, there’s a court, basically everything but moats. They’re feudal societies, and there are good ones and bad ones. " - Tony Gilroy

" I love it when people try to manufacture an injustice out of a position of clear superiority. " - Richard Herring

" Whenever someone says, or whenever someone harkens back to, a golden age of the U.S. – usually the ’40s or ’50s – 90 percent of the time, they’re a straight white man. " - Cole Sprouse

" Yeah, I wasn’t chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn’t planned by anyone. " - Neil Armstrong

" Mother always said that even when I was 3, I used to get the 6- and 7-year-old kids on the block and punch them and say, ‘Listen to me.’ " - Shirley Chisholm

" I don’t have any respect for judges who arrive at the result first, and then try to figure out some way they can bend the law to reach their particular predilections. " - Jed S. Rakoff